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I get really excited about body coloured wheels.and don't get why we don't see more of it.

My interest was piqued in the late 80s as there were a few Alfa's locally with them, notably a Red 164 owned by my best mates Dad with Red centres and polished rims.

Went to Cardiff Uni in 95 and regularly saw a Speed Yellow 968 like below which I thought was perfect and still feel the same now



I noticed in the Cayman post that it's still a cheap option but pretty much never ticked!

Works on classic American muscle cars



But not a lot else for me. Certainly nothing modern- I don’t class black or white wheels as body coloured before anyone shows me a championship white civic

Mercedes W123 hub caps painted body colour look amazing.

Usually I’d prefer a silver rim rather than body colour all the way to the tyre as with the 968 above but they are quite iconic on that. And a white car with white wheels usually looks amazing.

Aye type r is a great look

See my comment above- they’re just white cars that happen to have white wheels- they’re not quite the same white

I was thinking more XR3i cabrio and so on. Very 80s look.

jamcg wrote: Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:34 pm See my comment above- they’re just white cars that happen to have white wheels- they’re not quite the same white

White on mole-white? Unacceptable.

Don’t dislike

If my 968 CS was in a standard CS colour, then I'd definitely have body coloured wheels.

I originally wanted a Guards red or Maritime Blue CS.

Works for me.

They really work for some reason on the 968. Big boss at a place I worked at in the 90’s had a new white CS with decals and white wheels. It looked the tits.

Yeah, I like this one.. shouldn’t work, but

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1926334

I feel like this should work. But it... doesn't.

https://ebay.us/m/9PS0mK

Yes, awful.. I think maybe the dish of the wheels doesn’t help

integrale_evo wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:21 pm Don’t dislike

50% correct.

The front ones were coloured behind the turbine covers

dan wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 9:53 pm

Yep, Black wheels on Black cars work but I don't think other colour combos work.

dinny_g wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 10:47 am

dan wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 9:53 pm

Yep, Black wheels on Black cars work but I don't think other colour combos work.

Silver wheels on silver cars?

Silver painted wheels on Silver Car - NO

Chrome wheels on a Chrome Painted Car - No

Chrome Wheels on a Silver car - Yes...

No.